Nascar Running Out of Gas With Fans, Sponsors

11/13/2012 1:35PM

Nascar, the nation's richest and most popular form of motorports, has experienced a fall-off so steep in recent years that the roaring ambitions of the past have been throttled down. Valerie Bauerlein explains on Lunch Break.

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